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[thrpschr]

I've been talking a lot more to the girl I mentioned the other day, she sat beside on the Islamic history lecture yesterday. Christer Hedin surpassed himself in drawing impossibly large, complex and muddled diagrams, maps and family trees trying to draw the split between sunni and shia, with kalifs and the twelve Imams and the rest of it, and then

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[neige_blanc]

oh the clique thing...yes it is sad, sad that people are always prejudiced against every one different...
And I don't really understand it when it happens in places like this, were all of you have at least one thing in common!
People don't change unfortunately, either they are in school or in a 2 days seminar...they'll act exactly the same.
And I'm not saying it's something I don't do, it is natural that we will approach the persons that seem to be more interesting to us. Those criteria of course will be different for each person, but completely alienating someone from the start because of the way they look without having first a conversation is just sad as you said...

[thrpschr]

Yeah, the fact that we're not really any better ourselves is, perhaps, the most depressing part of it all.
There are exceptions, though. When I studied pattern drafting and sewing some years ago I made the most unlikely friend in that class you can imagine - a very normal Greek gina/kicker type girl who loved anything pink, was a fan of Destiny's Child and wanted to start up her own line of very frilly and very pastel underwear. It's fun when that happens.